Welcome to the Graduate Humanities Programs at Michigan Tech
The Rhetoric and Technical Communication Program engages students and faculty in interdisciplinary work that focuses on the complex interactions among rhetoric, communication and their social and cultural contexts. Special attention is given to the changing role of communication, information, and technology in contemporary societies.

The doctoral program prepares students for research and teaching in academic, corporate, and governmental settings.

The master's program, in addition to preparing students for further graduate work, provides education for technical communicators, consultants, trainers, and instructors.

Among the areas most frequently studied by current graduate students are: Composition, Rhetoric, Technical Communication, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, Communication, Philosophy, Technology and Media Studies, Sociolinguistics, Gender Studies, Critical Theory, and Literacy.

Recent PhD Dissertations include:

• Academic Preparation for Engineering Workplace Writing: Study Results and Implications for Technical Writing and Engineering Academics

• Rewriting the History of Women and Computers: Powerful Moments, Situated Actions, Emerging Identities

• Practicing our Preaching: Rhetoric and Technical Communication in American Forestry Discourse : 1905-54

• Affect Matters: Agency and Desire in Pedagogy

• "Ya Vez Como Son?/You See How They Are?": An Investigation of Cultural and Social Assumptions that Undermine Literacy Education

• A Rhetoric of Deliberative Decision-Making: The Rhetorical Situation in Global Climate Change Hearings

Recent Master's Coursework Papers, Projects, and Theses include:

• Why Tolerance Isn't Enough: The Historical Development of Tolerance and Its Role in Conversations about Difference in American Education

• Women's Online Weight Loss Narratives: Controlling Gendered Space